Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

[David Kastrup]

Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks for all replies.
> I'd use phrasing slur, however there's not much phrase to indicate with it...
> Look at the slurs marked in red in the attachment - a phrasing slur
> for 2 notes?
> In the first case Werner's guess may be correct (a slur would prohibit
> singers from taking a breath inside word "erit"), but the last case is
> still quite mysterious to me.

It is not unusual to have instruments double some vocal parts and the
slurs might be a playing instruction for them.

It is strange that in the last example the slur is present only in one
of two parallel voices.  Looks almost like a "I can just hear how the
honorable Mrs Staccatalto is going to mangle her part, so let's put a
slur just into the part she is going to sing on opening night" slur.

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David Kastrup